The stories are made up, but the problems are real.

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My particular favorite is the accusatory: "Do you think stress brought this on?"

Because, of course, I purposefully had a time-consuming child, and I purposefully like to worry about money all the time because it's so fun for me, and I purposefully have family-of-origin issues, and I just ran out and courted sleep-deprivation brought on my slumlords and and and . . .